Tariffs, component volatility, and Valve’s tolerance for losses all lead to uncertainty.

Tariffs, component volatility, and Valve’s tolerance for losses all lead to uncertainty.

  • thingsiplay@beehaw.orgEnglish
    5·
    21 hours ago

    For what the system offers, its unlikely to be this expensive. Valve also stated the price will be on the “low end of self build PCs”. That’s a bit vague, but it does not imply 1000 Dollar. Given with what Valve achieved with the Steam Deck, and that they know how important the price is, it will be cheaper for sure. Some analysts also tried to estimate the price for each part of the system and they landed on something like 415 Dollar. Sure, that’s not all to it, but its far away from 1000.

    I’m not an analyst. My price expectation is at $549 for 512gb model and $699 for 2tb. If I am off, it won’t be more than ±100 Dollar difference.

  • warmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    1 day ago

    At 1k, it’s DOA.

    I’ll be getting one and 4 controllers because my kids love the Steam Deck and I have a family library full of games.

    But at that price point it won’t be able to appeal to people looking for a console. It will only appeal to the tiny segment of PC gamers that already have a Steam game library and want the native living room experience because streaming sucks.

    The majority of PC gamers don’t care about couch gaming, this is why most PC ports don’t have splitscreen.

    I love local coop and Linux, so for them to thrive, I hope Valve makes the right call, again.